That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 02, 2021

The neighbor’s horse visited Henrik’s garden again.

“Daddy, have you seen Tommy?”

“Dad, are you sure that planting Sparky will grow another?”

Yeah, you keep on nagging, Matilda. I’ll be with you as soon as I dig the ditch 6 feet down.

Sam Spade, wondering where he buried the bones.

Jack, stop burying the beans. Ain’t none of them magic – that one time was a fluke.

“How much land does a man need?” Tolstoy says six feet.

Simple Simon trying to visit China.

“Mama says you’re going to need a bigger shovel if you’re looking for some common sense.”

Daddy, why is your dirt in Boss Kean’s hole?

You see Daddy is busy, Mary. Now be a good girl and go clean all these “tomato sauce” stains in the bathroom. Oh… and don’t forget to tell all the neighbors about this unexpected trip your mother had to take, ok?

i wonder if we should be worried about the same theme running through many of these comments…

my first thought was also, ’i’ll be right with you, dear – just let me finish burying mommy’…

“Dad, have you seen Mummy?”

Some day she will write in a novel/ of the childhood she spent in a hovel/ and of her disapproval/ of Father’s removal/ of Mother – by means of a shovel.

“Come over to my place,” she said. “You’ll really dig the garden,” she said.

The look on his face reminds me of the time my uncle uncovered a yellow-jacket’s nest in the ground, while he was clearing the ground for our above-ground swimming pool.

Lesson in futility, filling in a hole with dirt from another hole.

Bob’s Security System had always been “Shoot, shovel, and shut-up!” He was now at the ‘shovel’ stage.

A spike trap will do the job.

How the heck did that moss get from the roof to here?

“Are you playing ‘Curse of Oak Island’ again, Daddy?”

When I bought the farm, they said there was gold in these thar hills.

The painting..do ya dig it?

“Pa, Ma’s at the kitchen window and wants to know what you want for lunch if you don’t catch that mole, an onion or a turnip?”

Fed up with losing so many bocce ball games to his wife, Antonio digs some hazards on the field of play that just may turn the tables in his favor.

Why you should wait til you’re straight before burying your stash.

“Ma says you can dig all the test holes you want, but you ain’t gonna find any gold in the garden.”

Observing this gentleman’s toil/ can you wonder that people recoil/ from this kind of labor/(and this kind of neighbor !)/ and to living close to the soil?

Afternoon work: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H._A._Brendekilde_-_Eftermiddagsarbejde_(1918).jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-andersen-brendekilde 

https://www.hopkinscollection.com/greetingcards/prod_7125175-Hans-Andersen-Brendekilde-Girls-Picking-Blackberries-1885.html 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Hans_Andersen_Brendekilde/11090889/Hans_Andersen_Brendekilde.aspx 

https://prabook.com/web/hans.andersen_brendekilde/2329161 

https://bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/news/1132b.html 

https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/tag/udslidt-worn-out-by-hans-andersen-brendekilde/ 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, if more is added causing the askart.com to be truncated, it can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/10/21?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included one of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2677 (April 1, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

I think he needs to mow his roof.

Jacob, having just enough of little Hidi’s crap, prepares a suitable place for her to rest, for ever.

Dad! Hurry up! It’s my doll’s tea time, and you promised!

Breaking ground for the “Mother-in-law suite”

" How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm, after they’ve seen the farm ?"